Thursday, June 19, 2014

The Clandestine Reasons for ISIS Taking Over Iraq

Recent news
of the rapid advance of the Islamic Fundamentalist organization ISIS
across a wide swath of Iraq may indeed have come as a shock to a large
number of Americans. Indeed, to the general public who pay very little
attention to the affairs of other countries or even their own, the fact
that the ISIS now controls a large portion of Iraq as well as a portion
of Syria not only conjures up images of American foreign policy failure
but also of the possibility of re-invading Iraq in order to quell the
fundamentalist forces.

The irony, of course, is that “al-Qaeda” and ISIS would never have been
in Iraq to begin with had it not been for the United States nor would it
have been in Syria if it were not for the fact that the United States,
NATO, and the West in general organized, funded, trained, armed, and
directed it.

Unfortunately, the Orwellian
nature of the manner in which the “news” is presented to the American
public almost absolves them of the blame for being utterly confused at
the events transpiring overseas. From the constant fearmongering
and propaganda after 9/11 over the dangers posed by Islamic terrorists
to our “freedoms” to the subsequent open funding of al-Qaeda in other
countries, the American people are constantly bounced back and forth
between fear and support of the terrorist organization and networks now
in control of such large portions of land in the Middle East.

Thirteen years after 9/11, extremists have gained more power in the
region than they ever had before the “Global War On Terror” began. The
only question is why they were allowed to seize so much territory,
particularly inside a country that was seemingly so important to the
United States.